Last Iceberg 2022 B

作品賞析

Artist Yeh Yi-Li is often creatively inspired by life and experience, and her works extensively explore relationships among people and between people and nature. She feels that everything in the world will fade and disappear, and that humans may one day disintegrate like icebergs, so she presents the magnificence of icebergs and the hopelessness of their gradual disappearance due to global warming in her work Last Iceberg 2022B. The polar bear standing on one iceberg, the broken iceberg, and the “dripping water” ceramic pieces are cleverly placed to show the current climate, in which the polar ice caps are gradually disappearing and more and more icebergs are melting into the sea. The work as a whole is somewhere between semi-three-dimensional and semi-relief. The surfaces of the icebergs are carefully treated. She first carved deep scratches into the clay body of the iceberg, then allowed the glaze to flow into the scratches. The layering of glazes also created a glass-like effect.